Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy
Sitawa Wafula: Proč mluvím o soužití s epilepsií
Sitawa Wafula started Kenya's first free mental health and epilepsy support line. Full bio
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butterflies in my stomach
sweet words spoken
jsou následky,
vyhrála ve sportu,
and hugging each other.
a objímali se.
the spoon in my mouth.
I just pointed at my mouth.
jen jsem si ukázala na pusu.
the chattering stopped.
and she told me --
to the dormitories to sleep.
abych se šla prospat na kolej.
of high school,
my end of high school exams
of exams we call here in Kenya "mocks,"
jak jim tady v Keni říkáme,
how prepared one is for the final exams.
jak jste naučeni na závěrečné zkoušky.
against British colonial rule.
proti britské koloniální vládě.
imaginary papers.
concentrating on their reading
soustředit na čtení
vlastním životem.
everybody was looking at us,
and official introduction,
has been a 15-year-long affair.
for most types of epilepsy,
většiny typů epilepsie,
needs to be assessed by a doctor
zhodnotit lékař,
that I had epilepsy.
in hospital and at home,
v nemocnici nebo doma
až na závěrečné zkoušky.
science degree
na pojistně-matematické vědy
in my second year.
musela vzdát.
when I had a seizure in the workplace.
po prvním záchvatu na pracovišti.
of the things that had happened,
and being fired from my job.
I had heard about epilepsy
co jsem dřív o epilepsii
to be delivered from.
aby jim někdo pomáhal.
about these things,
would still be twitching.
didn't have answers
and my bad days and my really ugly days,
špatných i těch nejhorších dnech
by people who had epilepsy
mezi lidmi s epilepsií,
have the diagnosis.
kteří tuhle diagnózu nemají.
who constantly asked why me
která se ptá „proč zrovna já?",
o svém problému mluví,
to find their voices.
kteří se ještě neodhodlali.
from two to three times a day,
ze dvou až tří denně
times in one year.
and epilepsy support line.
pro psychické zdraví a epilepsii.
could never be able to do.
nebudou schopni dělat.
as big as 80 percent of Nairobi
of stigma and exclusion.
have the diagnosis
a constant reminder
with people like us,
je v pořádku,
the walls of stigma and exclusion,
life throws at us.
cokoli nám život přinese
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sitawa Wafula - Mental health advocateSitawa Wafula started Kenya's first free mental health and epilepsy support line.
Why you should listen
Sitawa Wafula is a blogger and nomadic mental health crusader. She's using her personal journey as a rape survivor living with a dual diagnosis of epilepsy and bipolar disorder to provide people in Africa with information and support to handle mental health conditions and deal with everyday life.
Wafula is also an Aspen New Voices Fellow with the Aspen Institute, USA and a non-communicable disease champion under the Ministry of Health in her home country, Kenya.
Sitawa Wafula | Speaker | TED.com